Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are cooperating to provide a new security feature that allows people using Yahoo for online search to see a red exclamation mark and a warning next to links that McAfee has identified as serving dangerous downloads or using visitors’ e-mail address to send out spam. In other words, if McAfee has identified a site that attempt “drive-by download”, Yahoo user won’t see the link at all.

According to Priyank Garg, director of product management for Yahoo’s search division, the lurking threats on the Internet is one of the most important concerns for Yahoo users. Yahoo and McAfee wish the new service will quell users’ anxiety about accidentally clicking on malicious links, thus helping people protect themselves and moreover surf free and safe online.

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